Re: Oracle January 2025 Critical Patch Update

[John Haxby <john.haxby () oracle com>]

> On 23 Jan 2025, at 17:24, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle com> wrote:
>
> On 1/22/25 18:42, Solar Designer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Once in a while, Oracle publishes what they call Critical Patch Update
>
> Once a quarter, per the schedule published on:
> https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/#CriticalPatchUpdates
>
> > documents, which list many vulnerabilities addressed across many Oracle
> > products, some of them Open Source and some not.  This is great, but it
> > would be even better if Oracle also communicated to oss-security about
> > those vulnerabilities in its Open Source products, perhaps one message
> > per product (e.g., MySQL separately from VirtualBox).  I hope someone
> > from Oracle reads this and will get the wheels moving.  Anyone?
>
> People from Oracle have read this, but it's specifically people from
> the Security Alerts team who publish those documents who would need to
> do this.
>
> > Perhaps there's more Open Source software listed in there, which needs
> > similar treatment.
>
> The open source packages delivered in Oracle Linux & Oracle Solaris are
> listed separately, but these are downstreams, so I've always thought they'd
> be off topic here, since we normally only cover upstream issues, and don't
> publish every distro's notices that they've applied the latest fixes to
> rsync, openssl, glibc, or whatever upstream was fixed this week.
>
> For those who want to see such downstream notices, you can find them at:
>
> Oracle Linux:
>   https://linux.oracle.com/security/
>   https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata
>   https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/#OLBulletin

Yhe errata mailing list: https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata is an analogue of the late lamented red hat 
announcement mailing list and it's a bit too busy to post that here (eg there we bout 20 new messages today which are 
announcements,basically, of backported security fixes to the various bistro versions).  The quarterly linux security 
bulletin is unfortunately about three months out of date by the time it arrives.


> Oracle Solaris:
>   https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/#SolarisThirdPartyBulletin
>
> -- 
>        -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith () oracle com
>         Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris

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